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A Tahlequah contractor was awarded the bid Thursday for a 30-foot by 50-foot metal building to be constructed at the Cherokee County Detention Center.

Tenkiller Area Community Organization will hold its annual Thanksgiving Community Dinner at the TACO Building on Mullens Lane in Cookson on Saturday, Nov.

Most area school districts made some progress in their Academic Performance Index rankings, according to figures reviewed by the Oklahoma State Board of Education on Thursday.

Cherokee County prosecutors late Tuesday charged a second man with a July 2007 homicide.

Over the past few years, employees at the Cherokee County Health Department spent the latter part of October and the month of November in a full-on sprint, getting patients vaccinated for the seasonal flu.

A* Special Writer Betty Ridge will have the final in her three-part series on NSU's economic impact on the community.

A* Staff Writer Travina Coleman has an update on the math scores of Oklahoma students.

The music came from instruments shaped like balls and giant triangles and was sung in a complex language hardly ever heard in the Cookson Hills.

An Oklahoma think tank believes potential tax cuts should be put on hold until state revenues rise to pre-recession levels.

A geologist says sediments containing phosphorous, arsenic, zinc and copper found in a lake in a northeastern Oklahoma watershed were likely caused by poultry litter being spread on nearby land as fertilizer.

Testimony during the trial of the state of Oklahoma's lawsuit against the poultry industry took a jarring turn Wednesday as a geologist performed a brief experiment from the witness stand in a Tulsa federal courtroom.

* Oklahoma may be a red state, but it has its share of pornography fans, as Staff Writer Teddye Snell will report.

Tools and other items have been reported stolen from a Cherokee County man's property.

For folks living in the Three Forks region in our early history, travel was often dependent upon river conditions, for there were no bridges to help them get across.

A dozen off-duty Tulsa police officers, most of them detectives, drove the back roads of eastern Oklahoma for months, taking thousands of pictures and generating thousands of reports based on what they observed, all as part of the state of Oklahoma's poultry-industry pollution lawsuit, testimony in the trial indicated Thursday.

* Oklahoma may be a red state, but it has its share of pornography fans, as Staff Writer Teddye Snell will report.

Water quality in the Illinois River watershed got worse throughout the 1990s, a state official testified Tuesday in Tulsa federal court.

U.S. Congressman Dan Boren has secured $12,252,000 for various U.S. Corps of Engineers projects and studies on Oklahoma water resources in eastern Oklahoma.

Huge yard sale to benefit liver transplant patient Raymond Trowbridge. Sale will be held at Vian Baptist Church, HWY 64 West.